And the scribe said (
eipen autwi o grammateu). Mark alone gives the reply of the scribe to Jesus which is a mere repetition of what Jesus had said about the first and the second commandments with the additional allusion to
1 Samuel 15:22 about love as superior to whole burnt offerings.
Well (
kalw). Not to be taken with "saidst" (
eipe) as the Revised Version has it following Wycliff. Probably
kalw (well) is exclamatory. "Fine, Teacher. Of a truth (
ep alhqeia) didst thou say."